Professor of Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne Susan is an Associate Professor in Organisational Studies in the Department. She is an internationally recognised expert in discourse analysis, qualitative methods, older workers and gender within organisations. Her research interests also include privacy and employment, specifically the impact of new technologies such as social networking sites and social media. Before becoming an academic, Susan worked in industrial relations, equal employment opportunity and human resource management in public and private sector organisations. She is on the editorial boards of the journals Organisation Studies and Journal of Management Studies and is as Associate Editor for Gender, Work and Organisation and Qualitative Research in Organisations and Management.
PhD Candidate, School of Public Affairs, American University Sara Harmouch, a Lebanese national and doctoral candidate at American University’s School of Public Affairs, specializes in counterterrorism and violent extremism. She has firsthand experience with the impacts of terrorism and militancy through her upbringing and extensive fieldwork conducted across the Middle East and North Africa region. Harmouch consults for the U.S. government and the private sector and has recently briefed NATO on religious militant groups. Her research focuses on asymmetric warfare, militant groups, political violence, and threats to democracies. Her work has been featured in War on The Rocks, The Long War Journal, Lawfare, Voice of America, Orion Policy Institute, Irregular Warfare Initiative, Globe Post, and American Intelligence Journal, among others. Follow her on Twitter: @sara_harmouch
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor Dr. Salsabel Almanssori is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Windsor. She teaches at the Faculty of Education and in the Department of Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies. Informed by her previous career as an elementary school teacher, her interdisciplinary research is focused on the areas of teacher education, public pedagogy, digital pedagogy, sexual violence, technology-facilitated violence, and experiential learning. She has published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy; Pedagogy, Culture, and Society; Gender and Education; Teaching and Teacher Education, among others. Salsabel is currently the Principal Investigator of two large SSHRC-funded Projects: (1) Pedagogy of social change: Teacher education to prevent sexual violence; and (2) The intersections of manosphere masculinity and technology facilitated sexual violence in Ontario secondary schools.
Research Assistant, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University Safeera Jaffer is completing a Master of Arts in the Education & Society thesis program in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her research interests include critical pedagogy and teaching practices in university-level classrooms.
PhD Candidate, Clinical Psychology, Western University I am a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Western University, supervised by Dr. Lindsay Bodell. My research is focused on the long term influence of body weight perceptions and attempt to change weight on the development and maintenance of eating disorders.
Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Sarah Diepstraten completed her PhD at La Trobe University in molecular genetics and developmental biology. She is now a post-doctoral scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Her research focuses on understanding how blood cancers become resistant to therapy and how this can be overcome. She develops genetic engineering approaches (CRISPR) to find genes involved in drug resistance. She has also taught in undergraduate science courses at La Trobe University and Melbourne University, and is passionate about science education.
